In heaven it is always autumn.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
More John Donne Quotes
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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